RangerWickett
Legend
First, the moment we discover anything that appears to be created by an alien intelligence, we must 'air gap' planet earth. No networked devices should be allowed to receive data directly from sources outside our local network of satellites. It's an exceedingly remote possibility, but we should not risk the chance that something like this happens:
A rover investigates the structure.
The rover is subdued, reprogrammed, and ordered to send innocuous dummy information back to earth.
Contained in that dummy information is an evolutionary program that will determine the design of our software, learn its vulnerabilities, and nest itself into our networks while disguising its presence.
Once it reaches sufficient processing power to become a functional artificial super intelligence, it engineers a way to get us to launch our nukes, wiping out all civilization and setting the human race back far enough that a clean-up fleet is able to arrive and wipe the planet clean.
A rover investigates the structure.
The rover is subdued, reprogrammed, and ordered to send innocuous dummy information back to earth.
Contained in that dummy information is an evolutionary program that will determine the design of our software, learn its vulnerabilities, and nest itself into our networks while disguising its presence.
Once it reaches sufficient processing power to become a functional artificial super intelligence, it engineers a way to get us to launch our nukes, wiping out all civilization and setting the human race back far enough that a clean-up fleet is able to arrive and wipe the planet clean.